XSS in Joomla

CVE-2009-4573

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Joomulus (mod_joomulus) module 2.0 for Joomla! allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the tagcloud parameter in a tags action to (1) tagcloud_ell.swf, (2) tagcloud_eng.swf, (3) tagcloud_por.swf, (4) tagcloud_rus.swf, and possibly (5) tagcloud_jpn.swf. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (67.6th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 67.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2009-4573: held from 0.012 to 0.012.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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